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Wild Nights with Emily

Wild Nights with Emily
Comedy, Drama | 2019 | NR. 1hr 24min
Closed Captioning | Open Captions on Wed CAST: Molly Shannon, Susan Ziegler, Amy Seimetz DIRECTOR: Madeleine Olnek ENDING 5/9

In the mid-19th century, Emily Dickinson is writing prolifically, baking gingerbread, and enjoying a passionate, lifelong romantic relationship with another woman, her friend and sister-in-law Susan...yes this is the iconic American poet, popularly thought to have been a recluse. Beloved comic Molly Shannon leads in this humorous yet bold reappraisal of Dickinson, informed by her private letters. While seeking publication of some of the 1,775 poems written during her lifetime, Emily (Shannon) finds herself facing a troupe of male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously. Instead her work attracts the attention of an ambitious woman editor, who also sees Emily as a convenient cover for her own role in buttoned-up Amherst's most bizarre love triangle.




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Olnek has crafted a lovely, heart-warming piece which reminds us of the importance of revisiting and challenging historical narratives and leaves one in both fits of laughter and in need of a few moments of contemplation.
Hannah Ryan, Much Ado About Cinema
Wild Nights With Emily may be Olnek's most political film to date, one that could forever change the narrative of the world's most famous woman poet.
Jude Dry, indieWire
Wild Nights With Emily is refreshingly liberating in its laughter, but also rich in worthwhile lessons.
Marisa Mirabal, Birth.Movies.Death.
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